Between Partiful, Posh, Luma, Instagram, and yes even Meetup, I'm not sure how people aren't "finding events" around them. I literally get invited to like 100+ random things every week.
I wrote a bot to scrape the feeds of local event organizers and extract their events for me so I wouldn't have to look at that damned site just to find out what's going on. My account was banned for bot activity.
Never posted, commented, liked, or interacted in any way. Just read feeds and exported data.
Abandoned the project and blocked instagram at the DNS level for all my devices.
Fuck instagram.
Then try again.